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Corporate eLearning
New eLearning-Creation Platform
Gloucestershire (UK), July 2008 - Luminosity, a novel Learning-creation platform that heralds a new direction in eLearning development, has recently been launched. The solution is a product of the CM Group, specialists in learning content and consultancy. » MORE
Best Global Partner by Harvard Business Publishing
Basel (CH), July 2008 - BRIDGE2THINK Group, with headquarters in Basel and activities in Europe, Asia, and Australia, has been named "Best Global Partner" by Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) in Boston for the third time in a row. In addition, the management-development vendor also received the award as most successful HBP partner in Europe. » MORE
OutStart and Eedo Knowledgeware Merge
Boston, MA (USA), July 2008 - OutStart Inc. and Eedo Knowledgeware Corp. have combined their operations, making the new company the largest provider of software for creating and sharing organizational knowledge through learning and social collaboration. The merged company, conducting business as OutStart, immediately becomes the dominant vendor of learning-content-management systems (LCMS). » MORE
Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning
Bangor (WAL)/ Bremen (GER), July 2008 - (by Kirsten Seegmüller) The new generation of eLearning will combine social networks with context-based services. Even though formal content will not vanish, modern technology will support user-generated informal content. And teachers have to adapt to a new role as facilitator instead of a pure information transmitter. CHECK.point eLearning spoke with Graham Attwell, founder and senior researcher of Pontydysgu, about this current progression. » MORE
Mohive: First in Europe to Offer eLearning by iPhone
Oslo (NO), July 2008 - Training on the go is about to get a whole lot easier thanks to Mohive's decision this month to incorporate the possibility to export into the iPhone into its award-winning platform, the company announced recently. » MORE
Medical Center to Use Swiss Software for Training
Baar (CH), July 2008 - King's Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, Kentucky, has opted for the i-qbox Human Performance Suite as strategic tool to support training and competence management. For the Swiss-based Comartis Group Ltd. and Comartis USA in Tucson, Arizona, this is another important success in providing Swiss-quality software for the global market. » MORE
Xyleme Unveils Xyleme LCMS 3.2
Boulder, CO (USA), July 2008 - Xyleme® Inc., a provider of 100% XML, SCORM-2004-certified learning content management systems, has announced the release of Xyleme LCMS 3.2. This is Xyleme's newest version of its single-source solution for learning content management: fully integrated, highly scalable, and truly collaborative. » MORE
IMC AG Takes over Dynamic Media eLearning GmbH
Saarbruecken (GER)/Graz (A), June 2008 - As of 16 June 2008, IMC AG, a European provider of learning technology, has taken over Dynamic Media eLearning GmbH, the eLearning specialists based in Graz, Austria. This was announced by Dr Wolfgang Kraemer, chairman of IMC AG. "Following eleven years of organic growth, the acquisition of Dynamic Media is the result of our decision to accelerate internationalisation through company acquisitions", said Kraemer, explaining the takeover. » MORE
Boost for Learning Technology Practitioners
Oxford (UK), June 2008 - The Association for Learning Technology estimates that there are several thousand people employed in the UK with learning technology as a core part of their role. Learning-technology practitioners can gain recognition for their professional experience and capability in learning technology through ALT's national accreditation scheme known as CMALT (Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology). » MORE
Using Mobile Learning Technology by Giunti Labs
Sestri Levante (I), June 2008 - A major bank's £6.3m fine in April 2006, following misconduct in its handling of share trades in two firms, has prompted one of the UK's major financial services institutions to use a novel approach - via mobile performance support delivered to its staff's PDAs and BlackBerrys - to provide 'nuggets' of regulatory and compliance-based information as well as key learning points related to data protection. » MORE
